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[SoxFan]

Largest number of daily cases of Covid-19 since the pandemic:

Bold in last week


1 - June 25 - 40,184

2 - April 24 - 39,072

3 - June 24 - 38,386

4 - May 1 - 36,090

5 - June 23 - 36,015

6 - April 25 - 35,467

7 - April 4 - 34,642

8 - April 10 - 34,197

9 - April 9 - 34,044

10 - April 7 - 34,025

11- June 19 - 33,539

12 - June 20 - 33,388

[SoxFan]

We need either a vaccine or much better treatment or within a couple years at least 60%-70% will contract the virus. Just wait until August and schools start to go back and those kids become the super-spreaders of the flu and covid-19. We wasted stay at home because of shear government incompetence.

[fuagf]

Say 8% of Americans have been affected, that only leaves about 52% to go before Trump
could hope that he and Boris's early fuzzy covid friend herd immunity might help him out.

As Europe Shuts Down, Britain Takes a Different, and Contentious, Approach
"AP PHOTOS: Life in the time of CORONAVIRUS["
[...]
Herd immunity, a term usually used to refer to the way mass vaccinations can stop the spread of disease and protect people who are not immune, is not seen by many scientists as a tool to be used against the coronavirus. Mr. Vallance has said that it would require roughly 60 percent of Britons to become infected, creating enough immunity in the population that a second surge in cases next winter would be less severe.
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"The Coronavirus Crisis -- CDC: At Least 20 Million Americans Have Had Coronavirus."

[BOREALIS]

Public health experts are increasingly frustrated with America's lack of leadership on coronavirus

By Eric Levenson, CNN
Updated 8:36 AM ET, Fri June 26, 2020

00:49
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/us/public-health-politics-coronavirus/index.html

Dr. Fauci: I wear a mask because it's effective 00:49

(CNN)Even after widespread lockdowns, the United States has failed to stomp out the coronavirus and again finds itself in a rapid surge of cases.
Public health experts place particular blame on a lack of leadership.

These experts are increasingly frustrated with American political leadership from the President on down that has repeatedly shirked its national role, passed responsibility onto citizens to decide for themselves, and turned simple public health measures into divisive, partisan talking points.

President Donald Trump and many of his supporters don't wear masks -- one of the simplest and cheapest layers of protection in dealing with a respiratory virus. And many state and local leaders have been slow to require mask wearing when you can't social distance.

"To turn it into a political act is exceedingly undermining the health of the nation," said Cheryl Healton, the dean of the NYU School of Global Public Health.

[...]